Ouch!

It's the return of the domiciliary nurse for the first of my hormone therapy injections. They're scheduled for one a month for 6 months.

The listed more common side effects can be:

• back pain
• blurred vision
• dizziness
• fever
• flushing or redness of the skin
• hard lump
• headache
• nervousness
• pain
• pounding in the ears
• slow or fast heartbeat
• small lumps under the skin
• swelling
• unusually warm skin

and you don't want to know about the less common side effects. I know they have to warn us about these things, but it does feel like they're saying "are you sure??"

Shit that hurt. They're huge, and it's a slow release jell which sits in a lump in the fat around the stomach. As it's the first one, it's two, either side of the navel. It hurts going in, and it hurts sitting there in a lump.

Not happy.